Cloud Management Simplified


With Cloud360, an end-to-end cloud management solution, we provide enterprises clear visibility and complete control of their IT infrastructure.
 

Cloud360 is an enterprise-class cloud management platform that helps you to quickly and cost-effectively deploy, manage, and operate dynamic and scalable architectures on diverse cloud platforms in a unified way. Cloud360 manages applications on private, public, and hybrid clouds, delivering IT services, ensuring enterprise compliance and protecting existing IT investments. Relying upon Cloud360, you can transform existing IT environments and realize cloud business benefits such as customer self-service and faster provisioning. With Cloud360, you gain the combined benefits of a powerful cloud infrastructure with a robust cloud management service.

 

Unique Capabilities

With on-demand provisioning, zero-touch monitoring, customizable automation, monitoring policies and unified management of multiple cloud platforms, Cloud360 provides you with clear visibility and control of all your cloud environments from one view, thus increasing operational efficiency and lowering expenditures. Cloud360 provides the following benefits:

  • Ensures smooth and rapid deployment of application environments
  • Monitors and auto-remediates application environments, thus ensuring high availability
  • Enhances the pay-per-use benefit of the cloud by offering consumption-based metering and analytics
  • Integrates existing IT infrastructure seamlessly with any architecture across diverse cloud platforms
  • Future-proofs cloud environments against emerging technological advancements
 

Features

  • One-click and zero-touch provisioning

    Reduces time-to-market and turnaround time for provisioning of environments from weeks to minutes with templated profiles, a scheduled provisioning facility, and reference architectures
  • Self-service, APIs, and Scripting

    Gains a do-it-yourself rich user experience with a self-service web portal, command line interface, and Application Programming Interface (API)
  • Catalogs and Workflows

    Standardizes catalogs and provisions workflows to ensure quicker turnaround and streamlined processes
  • Plug-ins and Integration

    Retains previous IT investments and integrates existing tools seamlessly with any architecture to support multiple best-of-breed technologies
  • Policies and FlexOps

    Streamlines the usage of your infrastructure by creating policies and management rules
  • Application Awareness

    Uses cloud intelligence to identify application interfaces and increases the efficiency of system management
  • Consumption Metering

    Views consumption data across various environments and gains suggestions for optimization
  • Analytics and Right-sizing

    Gets a bird’s-eye view of multiple clouds in your environment with trending analytics at all levels of the operation, from a specific cloud, to a particular deployment, to a specific instance hosting an application service
 

Why Cloud360?

Designed to reduce IT overhead and empower lines of business, Cloud360 has been shown to reduce cloud operating costs by 35% and streamline operations by 20x. For enterprises planning operations in the Cloud, Cloud360 is the ideal tool, giving users, managers, and administrators “just-in-time” virtual application development and test resources to save money and increase agility in a fluid, dynamic, and ever-changing business environment.

  • Business Agility
  • Elastic & Dynamic IT
  • Automated Deployment
  • Governance & Compliance
Create an elastic and dynamic IT environment with on-demand provisioning, policy-driven automation, and integration with your existing IT environments, allowing you to right-size your infrastructure.
 

 

Partnerships

Cognizant partners with the top cloud service providers and independent software vendors. Cloud360 is a provider-neutral platform offering best-of-breed management technologies for industry-leading hypervisors and cloud platforms, managed through a single interface.

Cognizant maintains the following partnerships with leading cloud vendors:

  • Technology partnership with VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud, and Microsoft Azure
  • Featured enterprise partnership with Amazon Web Services
  • Gold partnership with Microsoft Azure
  • Strategic partnership with Savvis
  • Silver partnership with Eucalyptus
  • Global Hardware Certification partnership with VMware

Cognizant also maintains an enterprise-level alliance relationship with Cisco, NetApp, HP, IBM, Symantec, and RSA. Cognizant’s expertise includes data center architecture, public/private cloud environments, and hardware including IBM X series, HP Proliant series, Cisco UCS, and the NetApp 7000 series.

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